Wringer



Patented Aug. 17, 1926.

warren STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM ROBERTSON, OF ERIE, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO LOVELL I/[ANUFAG- TUBING COMPANY, OF ERIE, PENNSYLVANIA, A CORPORATION OF PENNSYL- VANIA.

WRINGER.

Application filed May 31,

W'ringers as ordinarily formed are provided with drip boards and where the wringer is driven by power and it is desired to use it from either side these drip boards are ordinarily reversible. In accomplishing this reversal the boards usually slide be tween the sides of the frame and the tilting of the board reverses so as to carry the drip back into the tub from which the clothes are taken. The present invention is designed to lock the drip board in a simple manner in its adjusted and reverse positions. Other features of the invention will appear from the specification and claim.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings as follows Fig. 1 shows an elevation of a wringer.

Fig. 2 a section on the line 22 in Fig. 1.-

1 marks the wringer frame, this having the usual sides and top bar, and 2 and 3 the lower and upper rolls of the wringer respectively. These are mounted in the frame in the usual manner and operated as is common. A drip board at is slidingly mounted between the sides of the frame on pins'5.

Stops 6 are arranged to limit the sliding movement of the drip board and notches 7 are provided which drop down over the pins,

thus locating the drip board at either stop 6. Tilting stops 8 are arranged on the frame and the sides of the board engage the stops 8 and thus limit the tilting action. It will readily be seen that all that it is necessary to do to shift the board is to lift it from the notch 7, slide it through the frame, and permit it to drop against the opposite stop and with the pins 5 in the notches 7.

The edges of the drip board have up- 1923. Serial No. 642,478.

turned flanges to retain the drip on the board.

Locking bars 9 are pivoted on pins 10 on ears 11 extending from the frame. These bars, one at each side of the frame, have the forked ends 12, the fork receiving the Lip-turned edge of the board and thus retaining the bar in engagement with the board. In order to more securely maintain the engagement the edge is notched at 13 and the upper face of this notch is tangential to the arc traversed by the end of the bar when the drip board is in the position to receive the bar. The bars are loosely pivoted so that the bar out of use can swing sidewise and in consequence it readily drops to the side of the drip board as clearly shown in Fig. 2.

A rest plate 15 having the up-turned cars 16 is pivoted between he lugs or cars 11 and the same pivot pin 1 is used for both the pivot of the bar 9 and the rest plate.

'What I claim as new is In a wringer, the combination of a frame; rolls mounted in said frame; a reversible drip board tiltably mounted between the sides of the frame, said board having upturned edges; and a locking bar pivotally mounted on the frame and free to swing lengthwise and across the edge of the board and having a forked end receiving the edge of the board as the bar is swung lengthwise of the edge of the board, said end clearing the edge of the board when the bar is swung crosswise of the edge of the board.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand.

'WILLIAM ROBERTSON. 

